October 2016
The “October 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 4, 2016.
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
We Pluck this Flower Safely:
James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger– By Rich Blint"A House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand"
– By Chris WinksEach of Us Contains the Other:
James Baldwin's Steadfast Morality– By Claudia Roth PierpontThe General is in the House
– By Patricia Spears JonesCourting the End of the World:
Heeding James Baldwin's Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality– By James T. RoaneThe Victory Not Yet Won
– By John Keene"Love is a Growing Up"
– By Erica HuntThe Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations
– By Tracie Morris
ArtSeen
Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved
SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday– By Mira DayalBRUCE CONNER It's All True
– By Matthew BiroTARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss
– By David A. WillisMATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline
– By Darragh McNicholasVICTOR BURGIN
– By Phillip GriffithLYNDA BENGLIS
– By David RhodesPETER SHIRE
– By Jonathan GoodmanKYLE STAVER
– By Kate LiebmanTake Me (I'm Yours)
– By Hannah Sage KayBRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective
– By Joyce BeckensteinOccupy Peace
– By Phong H. BuiDONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field
– By Phong H. Bui
Books
Writing Outside Time
– By Joshua AlvarezKafka's Konundrum: Narcissism, Self-Surveillance, and Unreality
– By Christine CheonLittle Moments
CHARLES BOCK in conversation with Joseph SalvatoreMelissa Yancy's Exacting, Precise World
– By Weston CutterThere's No Place Like Time, or The Art of Trash Diaries, Curiosity Cabinets, & Determined Noticing
LANCE and ANDI OLSEN in conversation with Renée E. D'AoustDeep Monstrosity
– By Weston CutterSelling Our Cities
– By Artie NiederhofferFrom the Ground Up
– By Hilary ReidAll the Furious Living and all the Furious Dying
– By Tony LeuzziDown on the Cutting Room Floor
– By John MaderaNOTHING IN, NOTHING OUT
T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSotaMedical Cultures
– By Brian O'DohertyDay In, Day Out
– By Sara Roffino
Music
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaRead the Label
– By Marshall YarbroughTrust in the Label(s)
– By George GrellaOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Dance
Family as a Battlefield
nora chipaumire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music– By Ivan TalijancicSTEVEN MELENDEZ with Gillian Jakab
I Want to Tell You Some Things
– By Erica GettoGrand, Pleasurable, and Accessible
– By Susan Yung
Film
TRINH T. MINH-HA with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Patricia Alvarez
HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES
Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama– By Steve MacfarlaneDO YOUR OWN STYLE:
On John Wilson– By Dan SullivanRED AGAIN
On Owen Hatherley's The Chaplin Machine– By Celluloid Liberation Front
Fiction
Flick
–inSerial: parts one & two
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis Warshan extract from
Martutene–LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 2: The Oilbird: Negrisis Giganticus– By Sid Gershgorenan extract from
Memoirs of a Polar Bear–Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Four
– By Joanna FuhrmanFour
– By Bianca StoneDropout Poem
– By Camilo Roldánfrom Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours
– By Paolo JavierFour
– By Jessica Fiorini
Art Books
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
– By Alexandra FowleBruce Davidson: Survey
– By Zack Hatfield
Special Report
SPECIAL REPORT
Dispatches from the Campaign– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
The Republicans Have Been Trumped
– By Charlie PostLabor Costs and the Life of the Mind
– By Samuel FeldblumWe Are Not in Possession of Power; We Are in Possession of the Government:
The Long Goodbye of Social Democracy in Latin America– By Matthew WhitleySeizing Freedom:
DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. ClairOn Time and a Half, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Gain, and the Business of Mental Health
– By Jose A. Tapia
The Well
Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern
– By Sara Christoph